Adobe flaw allows full movie downloads for free

webax writes: 'It's a fundamental flaw in the Adobe design. This was designed stupidly,' said Bruce Schneier... Amazon starts to stream the entire movie during the free preview — even though it pauses the video on the Web browser after the first two minutes — so that users can start watching the rest of the video right away once they pay. 'It's the traditional trade-off, convenience on the one hand and security on the other,' said Ray Valdes, analyst at research group Gartner. However, even if a user doesn't pay, the stream still sends the movie to the video catching software, but not the browser.

Sadly, a lack of DRM is cited as the reason for the problem.